Canada has committed to move towards mandatory climate-related financial disclosures across the broader economy in line with the recently issued sustainability standards by the International Sustainability Standards Board. High-quality, transparent, reliable, and comparable climate-related financial disclosures allows businesses to incorporate, quantify and manage climate-related risks and opportunities a

August 1, 2023

By Christine Desrochers

Smart Prosperity Institute is proud to be part of uOttawa’s Institute of Environment which offers graduate courses in environmental sustainability. As part of our mandate to support and promote the next generation of researchers, we invited this year’s cohort of Master’s of Environmental Sustainability students to share their research projects.

June 20, 2023

By Talha Awan and Christine Desrochers

June 15, 2023

The City of Hamilton, along with Burlington and Grimsby, find themselves at the centre of a troubling paradox:

1. Metro Hamilton has a pre-existing housing shortage and needs to double homebuilding over the next decade to address this shortage and keep up with population growth;

2. The shortage of housing in Metro Hamilton has caused home prices and rents to rise higher than in other communities in Canada;

May 3, 2023

Guest post by Sarah-Anne Thompson

April 24, 2023

Guest post by Victor Ufot

 

March 21, 2023

By Sushant & Michael Twigg

 

March 7, 2023

Smart Prosperity Institute is thrilled to welcome Gillian Kerr as our newest Senior Research Associate. Gillian has worked in Canada’s environment community for almost 30 years as an environmental policy analyst, ecological economist, and champion of understanding the value of nature. We caught up with Gillian as she hits the ground running here at SPI, to learn more about her exciting new work on payment for ecosystem services (PES).